Obama a sign of head even congratulated him

He loves setting the scene. To describe its new functions, to the austere institulé, the President of the High Council of territorial administration of the State dates back to the time. In 1999, he was prefect of Finistère when the "Erika" breaks off the coast. Oil has not yet defiled the shoreline that already the fishermen and the mayors are turning to him. In the following days, they are citizens and journalists who seek information. Enarque must both hold the action of the State, resist the pressure and communicate, an exercise in which no school prepares. "In these moments, the loneliness of the prefect is great," says Jean-Marc Rebière. This is in part to assist these prefects that was created, three years ago, the High Council of territorial administration, even if his first vocation is to evaluate and to consider their future.

Without authority over the prefectural movements, nor power to sanction, it is invested, at the age of sixty-one role of sage, with mission to accompany the new prefects and sub-prefects in their delivery of service: "insert into local or organize major events, it learns to ENA! For a g-7 or a g-20, there is no best Professor. Last year, then prefect of the Alsace region, it has orchestrated in Strasbourg NATO Summit. Nine months of titanic work with surprises of size: "In Paris, the Prefecture knows control sewer." Strasbourg, he took first plans! On the Champs-Elysées, person or virtually lived... At the Wacken, where is located the Palace of the Congress, had badger 40,000 people! "In these two historic days, his only fear was serious wounded. From this point of view, its goal has been reached. Obama, a sign of head, even congratulated him. His record was unfortunately obscured by the sacking of a quarter of the city by militants of the Black Bloc. Two days later, April 6, the prefect was relieved of his duties, but his output was programmed.

A product of the territorial

Well before the holding of the Summit, Jean-Marc Rebière had obtained the promise of functions less "stakeholders" to care for a sick family member. Just back after 30 years in Prefecture things he enjoyed every second. For this son of SNCF agents, there was only one way to succeed: the Ecole normale because she pays his students and, if possible, the ENA. In the famous "guernica" promotion, he met future big names in the business, Baudouin Prot, Jean-Charles Naouri and Serge Weinberg, with which reports are polite but remote. This time remains zero memory. Only throne in his Office a snapshot in black and white of prefect Erignac, who was murdered in Ajaccio in 1998.

The two men, pure products of the territorial, occur in the Loire in 1981. Claude Erignac was sub-prefect of Roanne and Jean-Marc Rebière charge of mission at the Prefecture of Saint-Etienne. Ardent admirers of Chopin, they play tennis together and later share a common condition for Corsica. The couple Rebiere and her three children landed on the island in 1992. The joy of the former schoolteacher is great, since it is here his first tenure of warden, but the context, overwhelming. Come to Bastia 10 days after the Furiani disaster, the country is bruised. Region treats hundreds of paraplegics, Corsicans speak of the tragedy and weekly women organize a wake at the candle in the Prefecture, to maintain the memory of the disappeared. Seventeen years later, the prefect has not forgotten. The silhouettes of the widows or the message to the Republic.